Carlo Ripa di Meana (15 August 1929[1] – 2 March 2018)[2][3] was an Italian politician.

In the 60s Ripa di Meana joined the Italian Socialist Party and he came in its Central Committee.

In 1971 he was among the hundreds of signatories of the open letter published in the weekly L'Espresso on the case of Giuseppe Pinelli, a railroad worker and anarchist who died while being detained by Italian police in 1969, in which police chief Luigi Calabresi was pointed out as responsible for his death.

[9] In 1982 he married Marina Punturieri,[4] the former wife of Alessandro Lante della Rovere and mother of the actress Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, in a civil ceremony at Campagnano di Roma.

Witnesses were Antonio Giolitti, Bettino Craxi, Alberto Moravia and Goffredo Parise.